The Better Man Podcast

104: 3 Health Tips From a 73 Year Old Who Doesn’t Feel A Day Older Than 50 (Richard B.)

Oct 24, 2024

50:09

Before discovering Man Flow Yoga, Richard B. (today’s Better Man Podcast guest) developed intense hip pain from his job. His pain was so strong that he actually thought he developed a kidney stone!

As he started doing physical therapy for his pain, he was reminded of how similar physical therapy and yoga are. Unlike most Man Flow Yoga Members, yoga played a large role in Richard’s fitness regimen for most of his life.

While he preferred doing yoga in a yoga studio with others, he quickly changed his tune after his first Man Flow Yoga session.

Why?

Well, the muscle activation aspect of Man Flow Yoga taught him more about his body and yoga than he ever experienced in a studio class before!

Not only did this help him eliminate his pain, but he also started growing stronger after each session too. This snowballed into a complete transformation towards health:

After adding Man Flow Yoga into the mix, Richard felt confident to tackle his weight with nutrition and to try lifting weights for the first time in his life.

Five years later, Richard is still doing yoga, strength training, and following a nutrition plan that makes him feel better as he ages instead of worse. In fact, despite being 73 years old, he routinely feels like he’s in his 40s or 50s.

In this episode, Richard shares some of his best secrets and strategies that make him feel years younger than most guys his age, including…

How to step onto your yoga mat (even when you don’t want to)
Why noticing subtle improvements keeps your motivational tank full
Richard’s top 3 tips for men who want to become healthier

Some highlights from this episode include:

Why muscle activation yoga (instead of passive stretching yoga) yields better long-term strength, flexibility, and mobility results (3:59)
Why the “Man Flow Yoga way” of yoga is more effective at eliminating pain and building strength than the “yoga studio way” (6:53)
The “closer to the ground” nutrition tip responsible for Richard dropping 29 pounds before his daughter’s wedding (15:14)
How to feel at least 10 to 20 years younger (Richard is 73, but feels like he’s in his 40s!) (16:45)
Why deadlines are the single most effective tactic for achieving your goals (17:25)
The insidious way something as innocent as white bread makes Richard’s heart rate skyrocket (and how to better “spot” foods that compromise your health) (19:41)
The “Peanut Butter & Jelly” secret for combining yoga and strength training to unlock impressive fitness benefits in a fraction of the time (23:18)
Richard’s top 3 best tips for men who want to become healthier (43:10)

Listen now!Quotes from this episode’s guest:

(4:32) [Man Flow Yoga] is not your father’s yoga.
(4:55) Muscle activation is the only way to go [in yoga].
(6:53) I would do it the studio way, then I would do it the Man Flow Yoga way, and I would better understand what I'm doing. I would know what muscles I'm supposed to be activating. [A]nd I would feel better.
(8:05) I could be having a bad day, I could be having a bad week, a bad month and I can jump into a routine and I always always always feel better afterwards.
(17:05) [Man Flow Yoga and eating right] just made me feel so much better than I thought I would ever feel at my age.
(24:18) I realized lifting helps me with yoga, and yoga helps me with lifting. They work so closely together.
(29:44) [The Man Flow Yoga] community is phenomenal. This community would be worth the price of membership alone.
(37:36) You have to be willing to push yourself and do it when you don't want to do it. You have to know that on the other side of that routine or that gym time, whatever, that there's going to be a payoff.

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